Cases in pathology

Acute appendicitis: pathology of 1,000 cases.

A retrospective study of the pathology seen in 1,000 consecutive appendicectomy specimens with a pre-operative diagnosis of acute appendicitis, was made in an attempt to find common factors which might throw light on the aetiology of the disease. Acute inflammation was seen in 775 cases. In 225 cases where no inflammation was seen, 168 appendices were associated with other pathology, i.e., lymp...

Laparoscopic Evaluation of Tubal Pathology in Cases of Infertility

Infertility is a public health problem in developed and developing countries. Diagnostic laparoscopy is a generally accepted procedure to detect pelvic organ pathologies affecting fertility. This study was undertaken to find out the tubal pathology contributing to primary and secondary infertility by laparoscopic examination. The study was carried out in the department of Gynaecology and Obstet...

Cochlear Implantaion in Cases of Inner Ear Pathology

The inner ear pathology remains one of the most common problem in CI surgery [1,2]. Most of the complication after CI surgery main occurs specially in case of inner malformation and ossified cochlea [3,4]. The main purpose to determine the features of inner ear structure based on data of preoperatively imaging studies (high-resolution computer tomography and magnetic resonance imaging) and adeq...

Sonographic demonstration of stomach pathology: Reviewing the cases

Introduction: The stomach can be the source of complaints for many patients attending for upper abdominal ultrasound. It is not routinely imaged as part of most upper abdominal ultrasound protocols, with sonographers and sonologists alike commonly muttering the line; "I can't see the stomach on ultrasound". However, this is incorrect, as the gastric antrum can almost always be visualised sonogr...

Voice pathology grading by Gaussian mixture models: study cases